niktemadur

The average USA voter has already given hitler the keys to the kingdom.

In 2016, the battleground state non-voter empowered the goose-steppers and crippled everyone's future.
In 2024, the average USA non-voter ignored every single alarm bell going full blast and destroyed any hope for that future.

And still the average USA non-voter sits, twiddling their thumbs, waiting to be catered to, to be dazzled. Waiting for their own version of a messiah with a magic political wand, too lazy, ignorant to the point of medieval, and impatient to even begin and try to understand the principle of inertia, how political will builds up over time and several election cycles.

The right-wing propaganda trick is to get people to NOT do what they didn't want to do in the first place - homework is boring, voting is lame, amirite?

After a quarter of a century of having hope in the eventual decency of the USA electorate, the entire world has given up on them, as moscow and beijing salivate like hungry rats about to feast on a carcass. Now it's every man for himself.
The average non-voter must be very proud; must feel very special right about now. Congratulations.

Looks more like power on the bird line to me.

When this song came out, I was a teenager, and our world was divided into two basic factions:

1. Those clinging to 70s-style rock like Queen, The Who, Dire Straits, Supertramp, Pink Floyd, Van Halen, etc.
2. Those who embraced the strange new sounds coming from the UK, like The Cure, Depeche Mode, Siouxsie & The Banshees, etc.

Seldom did both of these worlds meet. Maybe with bands like Blondie and The Cars, music with some of this new sensibility which had made it to mainstream radio.

"Mad World" sounded like some sort of clarion call for those on camp 2, like nothing else like it before. Here we were, taking in all these new sounds, a whole ontology of them, and out pops this thing that still managed to sound completely fresh, to surprise and dazzle us.

This was all amplified by the video, in which Orzabal dances like no one we'd ever seen before. For a minute there, right after The Hurting but before Songs From The Big Chair, the Tears For Fears duo was the hottest thing in the zeitgeist.

Infotainment media is mental illness itself, compulsive and addicted, with no memory retention nor ethical compass, it amplifies what is worst in man, it FEEDS it.

And that's not even considering enemy propaganda from china and russia infiltrating itself into peoples minds, trying to destabilize democracies.

Fuck your sociopathic industry, what you made it into.

The thing about half life, that the way I'm understanding it, may imply that there are stray Higgs Bosons or Strange/Charmed Quarks here and there that could stick around unreasonably long, maybe, for minutes or hours... is that even possible?

The existence of a connection on a manifold enables one to reason consistently about geometric concepts on the whole manifold.

The geometry of the cosmos itself. Tracing good ol' fashioned circles and triangles with the full extent of the visible universe and even beyond. This stuff blows my mind, even just the mere fact that we're doing it, let alone the fact that we're getting such incredible, counter-intuitive results.

Picture yourself having a time machine, going back to visit Euclid or Pythagoras, or even Kepler or Galileo, and blowing their mind with four words: The Geometry Of Spacetime.

Not only does time itself have a geometry, it must curve and contract to accommodate the absolute speed of light... nuts I tell ya.

Then there are at least four spatial dimensions, but there may be as many as eleven. To think that Copernicus thought epicycles were weird, wait till he gets a load of THIS!

Spinoza? Meet quantum entanglement with no hidden variables!
"Oy vey!"

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Saruman's palantir runs on Deepseek!
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i DiDn'T vOtE bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL

Sure! Why not?!!

Someone with the most basic, rudimentary Photoshop skills (e.g. not me) could turn this into a Saddam meme.

During WWII, everything was in black and white and no gaydar!

"Personally, I suscribe to the Plum Pudding Model of the atomic realm. As a matter of fact, I'm feeling rather peckish right about now... [yelps for food]."